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The web team of KDE Germany is proud to present the German KDE website with a new layout. During the last weeks, the team of KDE.de - especially Dirk Trompetter and Klaus Staerk - did a great job to revise both layout and content of this website. Have a lot of fun with the new, reworked version of KDE.de. Read More

As part of a series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit, aKademy (running from August 21st to 29th), Michael Renner and Tom Chance interviewed Nils Magnus of LinuxTag about security on the desktop. He is due to deliver a tutorial on security on the KDE desktop with Kester Habermann, one of 15 that run in parallel with the coding marathon. Read on for their thoughts on Linux and Windows security, software patents and more. Read More

In a longstanding tradition of fostering the KDE web of trust, this year's KDE World Summit in Ludwigsburg will again offer another opportunity to get your PGP key signed by numerous KDE developers. Conducted by KDE veteran Matthias "Kalle" Dalheimer, a keysigning session will take place on Monday 23th. Read More

The Onebase Linux Team is pleased to announce a new flavor of OnebaseGo 2.1 LiveCD providing exclusive preview of the complete KDE 3.3 Beta2 "Kollege" desktop suite. This edition has been primarily released to test and report bugs about this unstable KDE version (gdb is included). All the KDE packages were compiled and optimized with GCC 3.4.1 to provide top-notch performance and speed. Also included are KOffice 1.3.2, Flash 7.0 and many more software. Read the full announcement. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: New KDE system sounds. Digikam has a histogram viewer, new camera kioslave, image editor, HSL balance correction plugin. Kexi adds two run modes; final mode and design mode. New icons for Juk, Kommander, new splash screen for KDE. Plus many bug fixes in preparation for the release. Read More

From June 27th to July 2nd 2004 the USENIX Annual Technical Conference took place at Boston. The FREENIX track featured a refereed paper about Kontact and how it is used as an application integration framework which was presented by Cornelius Schumacher. You can find the paper and the slides of the presentation at the Kontact home page. Read More

Ever dreamed of a nice piece of software that actually tries to simulate the evolution of an universe? Ever thought it would be possible? Now after a long time of planning and writing of some source code a small group of developers goes public with their innovative project: the G System. Read More

The aKademy Team is proud to announce the schedules for the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named "aKademy", taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Featuring speakers from IBM, Novell, SUSE, Conectiva, Trolltech, HP and many community hackers and activists, it promises to be a highlight of the Free Software calendar. Boasting an extensive program of talks, demos, tutorials, workshops, presentations, and joint coding activities, as well as plenty of opportunities to discuss such significant issues as usability and the future of Qt4/KDE4, you really can't afford to miss it. Whether you're a first-time user or a guru developer, register now to avoid disappointment. You can read the full announcement here, and find out more at the aKademy web site. Read More

On July 23rd 2004, Trolltech and the KDE Free Qt Foundation announced the signing of an updated agreement between Trolltech and the KDE Free Qt Foundation about securing the availability of Qt for development of free software. The new agreement replaces the original agreement from June 1998 by adapting it to the current situation and providing a new text which addresses the problem in a more exact and more complete way. The intention and basic content are still the same. Read the full press release for more details. Read More

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 2. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Kollege. This beta release shows astonishing stability, so the KDE team asks everyone to try the version and give feedback through the bug tracking system. For a list of new features skim over the KDE 3.3 Feature Plan. For packages, please visit the KDE 3.3 Beta 2 Info Page and browse the KDE 3.3 Requirements List. The Konstruct build toolset has been updated for this release. Please note that the kdepim, kdevelop and kdewebdev modules also compile on KDE 3.2 systems. Read More